Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED, by the Council and General Assembly of this state,
and it is hereby enacted by
the authority of the same
That no negro, or other slave, or servant of colour,
for life or years, shall hereafter be removed, exported, or carried
out of this state, except as herein after provided.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That if any person shall send to
sea or export, or attempt to export from this state, or send or
carry out of, or attempt to send or carry out of this state, except
as is by this act provided, any slave or servant of colour, for life
or years, every person so exporting or attempting to export, or
sending or carrying out of this state, or attempting to send or carry
out of this state, such slave or servant, and his, her, or their aiders and abettors shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
on conviction shall be punished by fine, not less than one thousand, nor more than two thousand dollars,
or imprisoned at hard
labour for any term not less than two, nor more than four years,
or both at the discretion of the court. And further, that every
slave or servant so exported, or carried out of this state, or attempted to be exported or carried out of this state,
or sent to be
sea, shall be free.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That if any person shall hereafter
sell, transfer, or assign any slave or servant of colour, for life or
years, to any non-resident, or person not being an inhabitant of
this state, or to any person intending to remove, or export, or
carry such slave or servant out of this state, every person so
knowingly selling, transferring, or assigning such slave or servant,
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction,
shall bn punished by fine not less than five hundred, nor more
than one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not less than one
year nor more than two years, or both at the discretion of the
court. And further, that every slave or servant so sold, transferred,
or assigned to any non-resident, or person not being an inhabitant of this state,
or to any person intending to remove, or export, or carry away such slave or servant, out of this state, shall
be free.

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That if any person shall purchase
or take a transfer or assignment, of any slave or servant of colour, for life or years,
with a design or intent to export or send
or carry such slave or servant out of this state, such person shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction, shall be
punished by fine not less than one thousand, nor more than two
thousand dollars, or by imprisonment at hard labour, not less
than two, nor more than four years, or both, at the discretion of
the court. And further, that every slave or servant so purchased,
transferred, or assigned, shall be free.

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That if any person or persons shall
fit out, equip, or man, or otherwise prepare any ship or other
vessel, to sail from any port or harbour of this state, for the purpose of
exporting or carrying but of this state, or sending to sea,
any slave or servant of colour, for life or years, such ship or vessel,
her cargo, tackle, furniture, and apparel shall be forfeited,
and shall and may be seized by any justice of the peace, sheriff
or coroner within the state, and prosecuted by such justice, sheriff,
or coroner, making such seizure, by information in rem in
the Supreme Court or the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of
the county in which such seizure shall be made.

Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That every ship or vessel, with her
cargo, tackle, furniture, and apparel so seized, as aforesaid, and
against which judgment shall be had and obtained, shall by order
of the court in which such judgment shall be had, be sold by the
sheriff of the county in which such seizure was made, or in case
the said sheriff be a party to the prosecution, then by one of the
coroners of such county, who after deducting all legal costs and
charges, to be taxed by the court in which said judgment was had,
and two per cent on the amount of such sale; shall pay one half
of the nett proceeds thereof to the collector of the county in which
the seizure was made, for the use of the state, and the remaining
part thereof to the person or persons making such seizure and
prosecuting the same to effect.

Sec. 7. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for any justice
of the peace, sheriff, or coroner of any county within this
state, to go on board of or enter any ship or vessel lying in any
port or harbour of the state, for the purpose of making the seizure
aforesaid, and if any master, seaman, or other person, on board
such ship or vessel, shall refuse or not suffer to enter, or resist
before or after entering on board such ship or vessel, any justice
of the peace, sheriff, or coroner, attempting to enter on board,
or being already on board such ship or vessel, for the purpose of
making such seizure as aforesaid, every person so refusing or resisting,
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall
be punished by fine not less than one thousand, nor
more than two thousand dollars, or imprisonment at hard labour
not less than two, nor more than four years, or both at the discretion of the court.

Sec. 8. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for every
person who shall have resided five years within this state, and
who shall be about to remove permanently therefrom, to carry
with him or her, every such slave as shall have been the property of such person,
during five years next preceding: Provided
always, that before such person shall attempt to carry away such
slave, out of this state, he or she shall make satisfactory proof
before the Court of Common Pleas, of the county in which he
or she last resided, that such slave hath been his or her property
during five years then next preceding; and shall also prove to
the satisfaction of the said court, by the oath or affirmation of
two credible witnesses, that such person intending to carry away
such slave out of this state, hath resided within this state, five
years next preceding, and that such slave hath been in the service or
employ of such person, as a slave, during that time, and
shall obtain from said court, a license under the seal of the court,
to carry such slave out of this state; and Provided also, that such
slave be of full age, and shall have consented to be carried out
of this state, upon private examination before the presiding judge
of said court, or in case of his absence, before any two other
judges of the same, whose certificate of such consent shall be
then and there produced to the court, before the granting of such
license as aforesaid.

Sec. 9. And be it enacted, That every master of a vessel, who
shall knowingly receive on board such vessel, for the purpose of
carrying out of this state, any slave, for whose exportation a
licence hath not been obtained, as herein before directed, or who
having ignorantly received such slave, shall suffer such slave to
depart from his said vessel, in any place out of this state, shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall
be punished by fine not less than one thousand, nor more than
two thousand dollars, or imprisonment not less than two, nor more
lhan four years, or both, at the discretion of the court.

Sec. 10. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for any
inhabitant of this state, going out of the same, on a journey to
any other part of the United States, or for necessary business,
to take with him or her any such slave or servant as aforesaid;
but such inhabitant shall bring back such slave or servant, and
in default thereof, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
on conviction, shall be punished by fine not less than five hundred,
nor more than one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment
not less than one year, nor more than two years, or both, at the
discretion of the court; unless such inhabitant shall make proof,
within six months after his or her return, to the satisfaction of
two of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas, of the county
in which he or she shall reside, that every such slave or servant
not brought back as aforesaid, could not be brought back by reason
of some unavoidable accident; and unless such person shall
forthwith file a certificate of having made such proof as aforesaid,
signed by the said judges, in the office of the clerk of said
county. And every slave or servant so taken out of this state,
and not brought back as aforesaid, shall be free: Provided that nothing
herein contained shall be so construed as to authorize or allow
the taking away such slave or servant in any ship or vessel
going to sea.

Sec. 11. And be it enacted, That nothing herein contained
shall be so construed, as to prevent the sending away or exporting
out of this state, any slave who may be convicted and sentenced to
transportation by virtue of the act entitled " A Supple-
ment to the Act entitled an Act for the Punishment of Crimes,"
passed the eighteenth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and
ninety-six, and which was passed the seventh of March,
one thousand eight hundred and one.

Sect. 12. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for any
person, not an inhabitant of this state, who shall be travelling to
or from, or passing through this state, to bring with him or her
any slave, and take such slave with him or her, from this state.

Sec. 13. And be it enacted, That the act entitled "An Act
Supplemental to the act entitled an Act respecting Slaves;"
passed the first day of February, one thousand eight hundred and
twelve: and so much of any other act or acts as comes within the
purview of this act, be, and the same is hereby repealed. Provided
always, that such repeal shall in no wise affect or annul any
indictment or other proceeding, had or to be had under the said
act or acts, for offences against the same, but that the same shall
and may be proceeded in and prosecuted to effect in regard to
all or any offences heretofore committed against those acts, or
any of them in the same way, as if this act had not been made.